Gottfrid Svartholm was born in Sweden and has an estimated net worth of $12 million dollars. A computer programmer, Gottfrid Svartholm co-owns PRQ, a web development company, and co-founded, "The Pirate Bay", a BitTorrent site. The Swedish government eventually shut down "The Pirate Bay", and Svartholm is currently living abroad.

Per Gottfrid Svartholm Warg (born 17 October 1984), alias anakata, is a Swedish computer specialist, known as the former co-owner of the web hosting company PRQ and co-founder of the BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay together with Fredrik Neij and Peter Sunde. He has also created the tracker software Hypercube (open source software under no specific license) which was used to run The Pirate Bay web site and tracker.Parts of an interview with Svartholm commenting on the May 2006 police raid of The Pirate Bay are featured in Good Copy Bad Copy and Steal This Film.On 31 January 2008, The Pirate Bay operators - Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm and Carl Lundstr"om (CEO of The Pirate Bay's former ISP) - were charged with "promoting other people's infringements of copyright laws". The trial began on 16 February 2009. On 17 April 2009, Sunde and his co-defendants were found to be guilty of "assisting in making copyright content available" in the Stockholm district court (tingsr"atten). Each defendant was sentenced to one year in prison and they were ordered to pay damages of 30 million SEK (approximately EUR2,740,900 or US$3,620,000), to be apportioned between the four defendants. The defendants lawyers have appealed to the Svea Court of Appeal together with a request for a retrial in the district court because of the recent suspicion of bias on behalf of judge Tomas Norstr"om. Under Swedish law, the verdict is not lawful until all appeals have been processed.As of April 20, 2009, Svartholm is the subject of an investigation by Swedish prosecutors looking into his role in The Student Bay, a file sharing site specializing in academic texts. Svartholm claims he had no knowledge of the site. The site was reported by the Swedish Association for Educational Writers in December 2008 claiming it violated copyright law.In October 2009, Stockholm District Court ordered that Svartholm is banned from operating the Pirate Bay, despite no longer living in Swede

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Prosecutors said Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, 27, is suspected of hacker attacks against a company handling sensitive information for the Swedish tax authority. Svartholm Warg, also known by his Internet alias "Anakata," was convicted of copyright violations ...

A court in Finland has ordered founders of The Pirate Bay, Fredrik Neij and Gottfrid Svartholm, to pay €405,000 in compensation to music labels, TorrentFreak reported. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry filed the lawsuit in ...

Pirate Bay’s founders Gottfrid Svartholm and Fredrik Neij, former website representative Peter Sunde and website investor Carl Lundström reportedly said that they were not involved in the activities of the file-sharing website after it was sold to ...